Welcome to the ELITE website! ELITE team is committed to providing excellence and
leadership to the diverse MC community in the areas of instructional professional
development, learning technology support and college-wide academic initiatives. We
hold ourselves accountable to seek and provide practical, innovative solutions to
enhance the learning experience of faculty, staff and students.
To learn more about ELITE, select one of the options below.
Featured Upcoming Workshops and Classes
Use MC LEARNS to sign up for at least one class this year in ELITE’s Tapestry series to enhance your cultural sensitivity, intercultural knowledge and cross-cultural skills. Improve teamwork across differences, in support of student success.
Each class is from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM, at Mannakee, the Center for Training Excellence, 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville.
- November 6th, Grounded in Your Roots
- November 27th, Media Literacy
- December 11th, Law and Social Change
- January 8th, Dialogue Practices
- February 12th, Multicultural History of the US
- March 26th, Globalization and You
ELITE - Latest News
Student Affairs and ELITE are partners in a new MC initiative called MC First. We are looking for staff, faculty and administrators who would like to be mentors for first generation college students. We are particularly interested in MC employees who self-identify as first in their families to seek higher education. However, all employees are welcome to participate.
The purpose of MC First is to introduce first-generation students at MC to others who have “been there” in terms of navigating college for the first time. Another purpose is to help students navigate the oftentimes overwhelming experience of going to college for the first time. Visit the MC First Mentoring Program website for more information.
Beginning with this edition you will see a focus on staff professional development as well as faculty professional development. Effective July 1, the Center for Professional and Organizational Development was merged in with ELITE. Faculty and Staff will continue to see the same exciting and effective professional development offerings they have always seen, and more; the merger means a comprehensive approach to professional development designed to meet the needs of ALL employees.
Over this past summer ELITE also moved its distance learning students website to the
content management system the College is now using. The migration to the new CMS also
resulted in some of the webpages in the old website being removed, including the Course
Information Pages. Faculty who have linked to any of the old DL webpages on their
syllabus should check the new website for updated links (http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/distance
). Enjoy the newsletter (PDF, 
) and have a great Fall semester!
The driving vision of the Employee Professional Development Master Plan is to foster participation and remove obstacles so as to provide a rich eco-system of life-long learning opportunities. These opportunities are intended to build skills, inspire and support employees and work teams to reach their fullest potential.
Employee engagement contributes to innovation and organizational effectiveness, which
furthers the mission of student success. View the Employee Professional Development Master Plan 2018 – 2020 (PDF, ) for information.